The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-01
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

The Emperor William of Germany slept
very well Sunday night. His cold is
slightly better.
Professor Kerchoff, the cell brated
scientist and discoyerer of the spectrum
analysis is dead
Troops are assembling at the Crow
agency in order to meet any emergency
that may occur.
The bogus Lord Paget" who was ar
rested in New Orleans has been released.
He has travelled under half dozen
aliases.
Messrs. Burbard and Dulany, whose
Ga,c0 duel was recently reported, deny
tie whole story, and say they had no
alteration.
Lady Blunt, wife OF Nr Wilfred Blunt,
no in prison in Ireland, is a daughter
of Lord Loyelace. and his wife Ada,
daughter Of Byron.
The West Division Railway Of Chicago
has been sold to the Yerkes Philadelphia
syndicate, which will commence a cable
system Of motive power in the spring.
George H. NeT, who shot and killed
John Gunsaert, near HilltOwn. Pa, was
arrested in Hazleton Yesterday, hay-
ing returned to collect some money due
him
Lord Salisbury has notified VI Wad
dington, the French Ambassador
that the royal sanction has been given
to the enforcement Of the Newfoundland
bait act next season.
The London unemployed" assembled
again Sunday with a view Of making
scene in Westminster Abbey, but after
entering the Abbey they quietly aband-
oned the building without any demon
stration.
II is officially announced that the Earl
Of LyttOn has been appointed to succeed
Lord Lyons as British Ambassador at
Paris. The Queen will bestow an earl
dom on Lord Lyons on his retirement
from diplomatic life.
The Moscow gazette demands a neu-
trality agreement touching Gibraltar sim
liar to the Suez Canal agreement. The
paper says it believes that if all the Pow
ers interested should insist on such an
agreement England would yield.
DR.. ID. X. Pearsons and wife have pre-
sented $4,000 in real estate 10 the facul
ties of the Congregational and Presby
terian seninaries in Chicago, the income
of which is TO be used in the support Of
needy students in the institutions
While engaged in his work at a burn
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day Thomas Reilley,a fireman, lost control
of the nozzle Of hose and was knocked
from a ladder. In falling he struck a
BARRIERS pole, breaking his beck. He
will not live.
Pearl Metcalf, the woman who is
charged with obtaining 5000 from Mrs.
Helen f. Shaw, in New York, under the
pretense of betting it for her on horse
races, makes the defense that even if she
did get the money that both she and Mrs.
Shaw were violating the law by betting,
and that she cannot be punished for
fraud.
A terrific gale ragged in the South of
England on Saturday night. Many
buildings were unroofed and there were
numerous shipping casualties in the
Channel. A boat with party OF twelve
persons from Weymouth was capsized
and ten OF the party were drowned. A
sloop was wrecked off Dunkirk and four
men were drowned.
An able bodied fish, or rather seI, story u
told by L. A. Pomrsy Of Jonesville, Mich.
He says the eels get into the turbine wheel
at his mill In such great numbers that they
clog il up so that IL stops. Ho repeatedly
took two bushels Of fragments Of eels from
tho wheel, and finally decided 10 incloso 1t
with wire netting.
A small Scotch terrier dog in Little Rock
steals his way on the street cars regularly
four times a day, 10 and from bis masters
place OF business. Whether his master Is
along or not he waits for the car at the cross
lng and hops on behind and alights with gen
tlomanly ease when it arrives in front Of his
masters store or residence
Leroy Brown, an elderly man, was playing
with "A pet kitten at his home near the rail-
road track in Homer, y Y, one day recently
The kitten Jumped from his arms and
ran across the track Mr.. Brown started ia
pursuit, and was struck by an express train
aud hurled fifty feet upon an embankment
His neck was broken and he died almost in
stantly
Old Dick. a rebel war horse, died in Sep
tember last, aged 80 years. He was bought
in Cincinnati and brought 70 Ashtabula
county, Ohio, by Lucius Thompson, and re-
nained with him for twenty-five years. The
many scars he had on him showed that be
was bullet proof; even lightning struck him
about a year ago, but he survived 1t and died
Of old age.
A rare fish, the opah or kingfsh, has been
caught off the Yorkshire coast. The speci-
men measured four feet three inches ID
length, and is said to be the most beautiful
in color and form Of any fish that nhabls
the North sea The body is blue and BLACK
bronze, studded with silver stars; the fms are
ssrmilon, and tho iris Of the eyes white. Ihs
dsh has been preserved and added TO coileo
ton Of natural history specimens at Griulso
\ strange and fatal accident occurred
10 the infant son of W. f. Gophart, at
Mismisburg, Ohio, yesterday evening
Mrs. Gophart put the baby to sleep In Its
carriage and went about her work in an
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